Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

male, deceased (1976)
Chinese communist, Cold War leader, CulturalRevolution, communist, chinese, great leap forward
Mao Zedong (also "Mao Tse-tung" in Wade-Giles;) was a Chinese Marxist military and political leader and philosopher, who led the Communist Party of...
Jiang Qing

Jiang Qing

female, deceased (1991)
Spouses of national leader, Madame Mao, chinese, gang of four, Lan Ping, Politician of the People's Republic of China…CulturalRevolution
Jiang Qing, born Lǐ Shūméng, known under various other names, including the stage name Lan Ping, and commonly referred to as Madame Mao, (March 191...
Lin Biao

Lin Biao

male, deceased (1971)
Plane crash victim, Marshal of China, Chinese Civil War, Whampoa Military Academy alumni, Chinese communist, chinese…CulturalRevolution
Lin Biao (December 5, 1907 - September 13 1971 ?) was a Chinese Communist military leader that was instrumental in the communist victory in the...
Liu Shaoqi

Liu Shaoqi

male, deceased (1969)
Leader of the Communist Party of China, great leap forward, shanghai, hunan, fujian, From HuNan…CulturalRevolution
Liu Shaoqi (November 24 1898 - November 12 1969) was a Chinese Communist leader. He was President of the People's Republic of China April 27 1959 -...
Hua Guofeng

Hua Guofeng

male, 88 years old
atheist, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, from Shanxi, Premier of the People's Republic of China, CulturalRevolution, Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng (born February 16, 1921) was Mao Zedong's designated successor as the paramount leader of the Communist Party of China and the People's...
Wei Jingsheng

Wei Jingsheng

male, 59 years old
Bejing, Communist Party of China, CulturalRevolution, Red Guard, Olof Palme Prize laureate, Democracy Wall
Wei Jingsheng (born May 20, 1950) is an activist in the Chinese democracy movement, most prominent for authoring the document, "Fifth...
Zeng Qinghong

Zeng Qinghong

male, 70 years old
engineer, Politburo Standing Committee, Crown Prince Party, Ji'an, President of the People's Republic of China, Vice President of the People's Republic of China…CulturalRevolution
Zeng Qinghong is PRC vice president and secretary general of the 17th CCP Congress. Zeng is a protege of former PRC president Jiang Zemin, having...
Peng Dehuai

Peng Dehuai

male, deceased (1974)
Chinese military personnel of the Korean War, Marshal of China, Simplified Chinese, From HuNan, Communist Party of China, CulturalRevolution
Peng Dehuai (T. Chinese: 彭德懷, S. Chinese: 彭德怀, Pinyin: Péng Déhuái, Wade-Giles: P'eng Te-huai) (October 24, 1898 - November 29 1974) was a prominent...
Li Hongzhi

Li Hongzhi

male
New York Times, Jilin Province, Qi Gong, Gongzhuling, Sakyamuni, Jilin…CulturalRevolution
Li Hongzhi is the founder of "Falun Gong" (also called "Falun Dafa"), which is a system of "mind-body cultivation", related to the Qi Gong...
Ha Jin

Ha Jin

male, 53 years old
Boston University, CulturalRevolution, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, PEN/Hemingway Award, National Book Award, Tiananmen Incident
Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer using the pen name Ha Jin (哈金). Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China in 1956. His father was a m...